Packing 40 Eggs in a Small Flat Rate Box PICTURES

[geareduplyn]

I never send less than 20 eggs so flat rate is what I go with, which is pretty much always cheaper. Everyone I sell to pays exactly the same for shipping. Makes for less figuring for me also. The Hatching Egg labels are available from EggCartons.com. I don't actually pay for any of the cardboard that that I use to pack. Think about it for a moment and you will know why.

 

[joebryant]

I'm glad that people on BYC sell eggs and ship them so that we don't have to buy from (?) on Egay, BUT...
I could never sell shipped eggs because nobody would pay what I'd charge to go through all that packing and driving to the post office.
Also, I'd never tolerate a buyer's complaining about how they arrived broken or with scrambled yolks. If the buyer wanted to be sure they were all perfect eggs, he/she would have to come to my house to get them because I don't for one minute think that ANY postal workers ever bother to read "Handle With Care" notes once they leave the original post office; they don't have time, and to them a box is a box is a box.

 

[Cara]

LOL Joe you make me laugh. Maybe if you start shipping eggs, your wife might be more willing to milk a cow

Our post lady told me to never mark something 'fragile'. And that's coming from the USPS first hand

 

[klf73]

yep, and the USPS website said do not mark them "do not x-ray" if you don't want it x-rayed because it will most likely be x-rayed if tagged that way.....

 

[warmfuzzies]

I have wondered about that.... If I was a Homeland Security officer and I saw DO NOT X RAY I would, uhh yeah, you know.

I have also wondered how many postal workers have fun with the boxes labeled 'fragile', just cause they can.

But, I still put FRAGILE all over the box I sent out today!

 

[joebryant]

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That'd be an awfully BIG maybe. She's awfully pig headed, stubborn, and too lazy to get up early to milk and milk again after fixing dinner. What's a born-in-Kentucky country boy supposed to do with some city girl like her when he wants a little Jersey milk cow, fresh milk, and chruned butter? Take a belt to her? Sighhhh... My life is a desert!

 

[Southern Chickens]

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I heard that you can wrap in tin foil to protect from the x-ray machine. I am not sure if that is true.

 

[warmfuzzies]

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That'd be an awfully BIG maybe. She's awfully pig headed, stubborn, and too lazy to get up early to milk and milk again after fixing dinner. What's a born-in-Kentucky country boy supposed to do with some city girl like her when he wants a little Jersey milk cow, fresh milk, and chruned butter? Take a belt to her? Sighhhh... My life is a desert!

I can think af a few optjions.... One being MILK THE COW YOURSELF!!!!

Poor, poor man.

 

[geareduplyn]

There is too much paranoia about the USPS shipping packages IMO. The Xrays used by the PO were never strong enough to ever harm an egg, and in fact I think their use has been discontinued. I always put a hatching egg label on all the sides and the top of the box. It may not do any good, but I am optomistic enough to believe that it may in some cases help. Most of the time the boxes are handled by completely automated equipment, so blaming the postal employees for mishandling is a waste of time.

joebryant, I sell most of my eggs on Ebay, so I don't believe all the sellers are gangsters. Admittedly there are some people who blatantly misrepresent things, but I can't do anything about it, except email them and rant. Julie3810 and fancygeese I'm sure have put me right at the top of their crackpot list. I'm also not as much a pessimist as you. Most of my buyers are really nice people, and if they are novices I really make an effort to give them what I consider sound advice. I also steer them to this very forum. We differ also about the time taken in packing. I so enjoy doing a good job in everything I do, that nothing I do is ever really labor.

 

[klf73]

I do agree with you Gary. X-ray has come a long way and the machinery used now has minimal effect on anything. I just thought it funny that they put this on their site...